News Releases
2002 News Release
12/23/2002
- Space Station Expedition 10 Backup Crew Named
- International Space Shuttle Science Mission Preview
- Scientists Catch Their First Elusive "Dark" Gamma-Ray Burst
- NASA's Year Of Challenges, Changes and Accomplishments
12/20/2002
12/19/2002
12/18/2002
- Creepy Crawlers May Unravel Web of Planetary Mysteries
- Young Star Cluster Found Aglow with Mysterious Cloud
- NASA Testing K9 Rover in New "Marscape"
12/17/2002
- NASA Helps Kick Off National Centennial Of Flight Celebration
- NASA Senior Associate Deputy Retiring
- ICESat/CHIPSat Launch Rescheduled
12/12/2002
12/11/2002
- NASA Know-How Will Reduce Automotive Emissions
- NASA Develops New Design Process For Future Spacecraft
- Maryland Science Center Hosts Major NASA Announcement
12/09/2002
- International Space Station Expedition Six Spacewalk Postponed
- NASA's Revealing Odyssey
- NASA Twins Plan Martian Ramble
- Featherweight Jupiter Moon Is Likely a Jumble Of Pieces
12/06/2002
- Space Station Action Plan Approved
- NASA Scientists Highlight Space & Earth Science Research
- NASA Picks Delta II To Launch Medium-Class Payloads
- NASA Selects Four Mars Scout Mission Concepts For Study
12/05/2002
- Final Major Space Station Segments Head to Launch Site
- Reese Moves To Education Initiatives Office
- NASA Assistant Administrator Named
12/04/2002
- NASA Access Policy For Foreign Media Representatives
- Expedition Six Lights Up the Holiday Season In New York
- Spacewalk Coverage on NASA TV -- Updated Coverage Time
12/03/2002
- National Celebration of the Wright Stuff Kicks Off December 17
- Expedition Five Backup Crewmember Named to Expedition Seven
- Spacewalk Coverage on NASA TV
11/27/2002
- Welcome Home, Flat Stanley
- Spence M. Armstrong to Retire From NASA
- Arnauld Nicogossian Retires After More Than 30 Years With NASA
11/26/2002
- NASA Names Deputy Head of Aerospace Technology
- NASA's Ready to Study Cool Ice, Hot Plasma and Ocean Winds
- Advanced Communications Satellite to Speed Up Space-Based Data
- NASA Awards JPL Contract
11/22/2002
11/20/2002
11/19/2002
- Never Before Seen: Two Supermassive Black Holes in Same Galaxy
- NASA Helps Visually Impaired To "Touch The Universe"
- NASA Helps Create a Parachute To Save Lives and Airplanes
11/15/2002
11/14/2002
- Astronauts Capture High-Resolution Glacier Imagery
- NASA Innovations Featured in Spinoff 2002
- NASA Prepares for "Last Chance" Meteor Shower
11/13/2002
11/08/2002
- NASA Statement on the Integrated Space Transportation Plan
- NASA Captures Three "Best of What's New Awards" From Popular Science Magazine
11/07/2002
- George W.S. Abbey Announces Retirement
- Special Native American Send Off for NASA's Next Shuttle Mission
11/06/2002
11/04/2002
11/01/2002
10/31/2002
10/30/2002
10/29/2002
- Virginia Air & Space Center, DGVF Productions Join Centennial Celebration
- NASA Announces New Associate Administrator For Education
- Director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program Goes "Live" With College Students in Puerto Rico Via Videoconference
10/28/2002
10/25/2002
- NASA Sponsors Student Robotic Competition
- Space Station Crew-Return Vehicle Activities Carried on NASA TV
10/24/2002
10/23/2002
- NASA to Develop Biohazard 'Smoke' Detector
- NASA Announces Microgravity Combustion Science Research Grants
10/21/2002
- NASA & Partners Dedicate New Educational Facilities
- October 28 Briefings On NASA TV To Discuss New Space Station Hardware and Expedition Crew
10/18/2002
10/17/2002
10/16/2002
- NASA Mission Demonstrates Practical Use of UAV Technology
- NASA Administrator Names Deputy Chief Financial Officer
10/11/2002
10/08/2002
- NASA Researchers Developing Tools To Help Track and Predict West Nile Virus
- Scientists Worldwide Race To Observe Fading Gamma-Ray Burst
- NASA Awards Contract to Boeing
- Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Astronomer for NASA-Funded Research
10/07/2002
- Hubble Spots An Icy World Far Beyond Pluto
- Aerospace Education Takes Flight With NASA's "Virtual Skies"
10/04/2002
- Not Just Another Mission: NASA Helps Launch New Education Center in Phoenix
- NASA Awards $25 Million Contract Addition To Lockheed Martin
10/03/2002
- Chandra Discovers the History of Black Hole X-Ray Jets
- NASA Selects New "SHARP" Education Partner
- NASA's Historic Return To Hubble Launches the Science Channel's Fall Season
10/02/2002
10/01/2002
09/30/2002
- Unusually Small Antarctic Ozone Hole This Year Attributed To Exceptionally Strong Stratospheric Weather Systems
- Studies Aim To Reduce Airliner Fuel Tank Flammability
- NASA Funds Workforce Development Projects
09/26/2002
- Black Carbon Contributes To Droughts and Floods in China
- NASA Headquarters Names News Chief
- NASA Selects Corporation To Lead Innovative Research Institute
09/25/2002
09/23/2002
09/20/2002
- Students Can Soar To New Heights In NASA's Student Rocket Contest
- NASA Honored For Completing E-Government Security Program
09/19/2002
- Space Station Supply Ship Coverage On NASA TV
- NASA TV Viewers Can Hitch a Space Shuttle Ride
- Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar
- G. Scott Hubbard Named NASA Ames Research Center Director
09/17/2002
- Hubble Discovers Black Holes In Unexpected Places
- U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission Announces Four New Alliances
09/16/2002
- Action! Revealing Movie Sheds New Light On Crab Pulsar: Space Science Update September 19
- NASA Plans To Explore Hollywood's Film Frontier
- NASA Administrator Names Whitson First NASA ISS Science Officer
09/13/2002
09/12/2002
09/10/2002
- NASA Announces Contract For Next-Generation Space Telescope Named After Space Pioneer
- NASA Senior Official Appointments Emphasize 'One NASA' Management Approach
09/05/2002
09/04/2002
- NASA Airborne Observatory's Telescope Assembly Arrives
- NASA Selects Three Additional Designated Space Grant State Consortia
08/30/2002
08/29/2002
- KSC's James L. Jennings Selected As Headquarters' Deputy Associate Administrator For Institutions and Asset Management
- NASA To Provide Sharper Underground View Of World Trade Center Area
- NASA Awards Payload Processing Contract To Boeing Space Operations Company
08/27/2002
- Soyuz Taxi-Crew Media Availability Scheduled Aug. 29
- Students To Share Thrill Of Space Exploration With Lance Bass
- Media Day Highlights NASA Solar-Powered Hawaiian Coffee-Field Flights
08/26/2002
08/23/2002
- NASA Television Provides Station Spacewalk Coverage
- Contract Awarded For Enviornmental Satellite System of the Future, DOD, NOAA, and NASA Announce
08/22/2002
08/20/2002
- NASA Associate General Counsel To Aid Homeland Security Effort
- NASA Rejects Claims It Plans Mind Reading Capability
08/19/2002
08/16/2002
- 25 Years Later, Voyager Mission Keeps Pushing the Space Envelope
- Media Opportunity 5 p.m. Today to Discuss CONTOUR Search
08/15/2002
- Instrument Aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite Joins Twin to Begin Comprehensive Global Coverage
- Astronaut Crew Assignments Build on Space Station Experience
08/13/2002
08/08/2002
- Satellites See Big Changes Since 1980s In Key Element Of Ocean's Food Chain
- ISS Spacewalks To Be Broadcast On NASA Television
08/07/2002
08/06/2002
- First Images From NASA's "Thermometer in the Sky" Sizzle
- Administrator Sean O'Keefe Selects Astronaut William F. Readdy as Space Flight Associate Administrator
08/05/2002
08/02/2002
- U.S. Senate Confirms Frederick D. Gregory, NASA's First African-American Deputy Administrator
- Space Shuttle Fleet Set For Return To Flight Sept. 28
- Researchers Publish Latest Results in Continuing Search for Ancient Martian Life
- NASA Exercises Space Flight Operations Contract Option
- NASA Selects Two Design Tools As Software of the Year
08/01/2002
- Space-Shuttle Status News Conference On NASA TV Aug. 2
- Select NASA News Releases Now Available in Russian
- Satellites Reveal a Mystery of Large Change in Earth's Gravity Field
07/31/2002
- SeaWiFS Sensor Marks Five Years Documenting Earth's Dynamic Biosphere
- Chandra Discovers "Rivers of Gravity" That Define Cosmic Landscape
07/30/2002
- New Alloy Could Improve Gas Mileage, Lower Emissions
- Media Invited Behind the Scenes Aug. 8 to See Unmanned Aircraft Used in NASA Study on Causes of Lightning in Storms
07/29/2002
07/26/2002
- NASA Takes Nation's Teacher of the Year On a Week-Long Space "Mission"
- Backup Crew Member Assigned To Expedition Six
- Student Aviation-Design Competition Winners Named
07/24/2002
- Dr. Earle Knowlen Huckins III, Manager Of Space Science and Space Station Programs At NASA Headquarters, Dies at 59
- Revised - Interplanetary Superhighway Makes Space Travel Simpler
- At Five-Year Anniversary, Conference Considers Satellite's Contributions To Understanding Global Energy, Water Cycle
- Roy Estess Retires, NASA Administrator Names Bill Parsons As New Stennis Center Director
07/23/2002
- Dwarf Galaxies Give Universe a Breath of Fresh Oxygen
- NASA To Study Lightening Storms Using High-Flying Uninhabited Vehicle
07/22/2002
07/18/2002
- Atom Research May Help Detect Volcanoes and Oceans
- NASA Selects Innovative Small Business Research Projects
- And the Winner Is...NASA Women Of Color
07/17/2002
- Interplanetary Superhighway Makes Space Travel Simpler
- U.S. Centennial Of Flight Commission Welcomes NASM and NASA As Partners In Celebrating 100 Years Of Powered Flight
07/16/2002
07/15/2002
- High-School Student Wins Awards For Work With NASA Spacecraft
- NASA Extends Chandra X-ray Observatory Contract With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
07/11/2002
- White House Formally Nominates Frederick Gregory As NASA Deputy Administrator
- Seeing Clearly Now: Sharp New NASA Maps To Improve Lives Everywhere
- NASA Awards Contract To Support Astrobiology and Space Research
07/10/2002
- Media Day Planned For NASA's Key West Cloud Campaign
- NASA Announces Dryden Services Contract Award
- ReMaP Task Force Recognized By NASA Administrator and NASA Advisory Council Chair
07/09/2002
07/03/2002
07/02/2002
07/01/2002
- NASA Helps Preserve Our Nation's History
- NASA Extends Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Contract With ATK Thiokol Through May 2007
06/27/2002
06/25/2002
06/24/2002
06/21/2002
06/20/2002
- Space Station Resupply-Ship Activities Carried Live On NASA Television
- Expedition Five Topic Of Tuesday Briefing
06/18/2002
- NASA Awards Grants To Study the Ocean Planet
- NASA Works To Help Pilots Weather the Skies
- Shuttle Space-Research Mission Briefings Set For June 28
06/14/2002
06/13/2002
06/12/2002
- NASA's Contour Mission Gets To the "Heart" Of Comet Diversity
- Seven Universities Selected As NASA Institutes
- NASA Extends Shuttle External Tank Contract With Lockheed Martin To September 2008
06/11/2002
- Space Science Update: Major Extrasolar Discovery Announcement Expected June 13
- Atlas III Chosen to Launch Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
06/10/2002
- Research Task Force Granted Extension
- Tommy Holloway, Space Station Porogram Manager, Retires
- NASA Selects Instrument and Science Team for Next Generation Space Telescope
- NASA Returns World Trade Center Flag to Commemorate Flag Day at New York's American Museum of Natural History
06/07/2002
06/05/2002
06/04/2002
- Black Holes In Distant Galaxies Point To Wild Youth
- U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission Announces New Alliances
06/03/2002
- Liberating the Universe: Making Astronomy Accessible To All Students
- Joint Statement: International Space Station Heads Of Agency Meeting
05/29/2002
- Was Einstein Wrong? Space Station Research May Find Out
- NASA Selects 28 Participating Scientists For Mars Rover Mission
05/28/2002
- Fleet of NASA Spacecraft Observe Atmosphere's Response To Recent Solar Storms
- NASA Hosts U.S. Physics Olympiad Team Honors
- Odyssey Finds Water Ice In Abundance Under Mar's Surface
- NASA Awards ELV Support Contract To Analex Corporation
05/24/2002
- NASA Awards $100 Million Contract To Continue Information Technology Support Services
- NASA Scientists Highlight New Earth and Space Science Research at 2002 AGU Spring Meeting
05/22/2002
- NASA Homepage Offers Links To NASA En Espanol: Spanish Language Content
- PGINA PRINCIPAL DE LA NASA OFRECE ENLACES A SU RED, EN
- NASA Television To Broadcast Memorial Day Message From International Space Station Crew
- Ball Aerospace Picked To Provide NPP Spacecraft Bus
05/21/2002
05/17/2002
- Endeavour To Launch May 30, Continue Station Assembly, Bring Home Veteran Crew
- NASA To Exercise Hamilton Sundstrand Contract Option
- U.S. Centennial Of Flight Commission Signs First Licensing Agreement
05/16/2002
- Link Symposium 2002 Event Highlights and Coverage Guidelines
- Going to Extremes: Sea and Space Experts Discuss Parallels in Exploration
05/15/2002
05/14/2002
- NASA Administrator Names Langley Director Associate Administrator Of Aerospace Technology
- NASA Modifies SPACEHAB Contract
- NASA Administrator Names New Deputy Associate Administrator For International Space Station and Space Shuttle
- NASA Selects Partner For Aviation Research
05/13/2002
05/10/2002
- U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission and U.S. Air Force Announce Alliance
- NASA Administrator Taps New Legislative Affairs Chief
05/09/2002
05/08/2002
05/07/2002
- NASA Program Offers Students Hands-On Research Opportunities
- Space Station Crew-Rotation Mission Briefings Set For May 20
05/06/2002
05/03/2002
- International Space Station Astronauts Set New Standard For Earth Photography
- NASA Awards $1.14 Billion Space Shuttle Main Engine Contract To Boeing Rocketdyne
- NASA Honors Student Winners
04/30/2002
- Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe
- Milestone Review Brings NASA One Step Closer To New Launch Vehicle
- NASA Administrator Names New Associate Administrator For Safety
04/29/2002
04/25/2002
- NASA TV To Cover Soyuz Taxi Crew Visit To Space Station
- NASA To Announce Next Step Toward New Launch Vehicle
- First Images From Hubble's New Camera To Be Released April 30
04/24/2002
04/22/2002
04/18/2002
- NASA TV Covers Russian Soyuz Space Station Move
- Discover a Comet While On the Internet With SOHO
- Aqua Mission Media Briefings Set For April 22
- Mars Viking Leader, James S. Martin, Jr., Dies
04/17/2002
- New IMAX Film Takes Moviegoers On 3D Space Station Tour
- NASA Selects Explorer Mission Proposals For Feasibility Studies
- Hubble Hunts Down Odd Couples At the Fringes Of Our Solar System
04/15/2002
- Press Briefing Scheduled With NASA Administrator and Astronaut Barbara Morgan
- Media Invited To Take IMAX 3D Space Station Tour
04/12/2002
04/10/2002
- Cosmic X-Rays Reveal Evidence For New Form Of Matter
- Administrator O'Keefe's Address Now Available On NASA Television
04/09/2002
04/05/2002
- NASA and VA Roll Out New Patient Safety Reporting System
- Chandra Uncovers Evidence For a New Form Of Matter: Space Science Update, April 10
04/04/2002
04/02/2002
04/01/2002
03/29/2002
03/26/2002
03/20/2002
03/18/2002
- NASA TV Coverage Of ISS Supply-Craft Departure, Arrivial
- Astronauts Assigned For Space Station Expedition Training
- NASA History Volume To Receive Emme Award
- Space Station Astronauts Accept Long Distance Call From E.T.--Live from Universal Studios
- March 20 Is National Sun-Earth Connection Awareness Day
03/15/2002
- NASA's Amazing Grace Twins Set To Sing Praises Of Gravity
- March 21 Press Briefings To Discuss Station Truss Mission
- NASA Selects Advanced Technology Concept For Test Flight
- NASA Picks Landsat Data Proposals For Further Development
03/14/2002
03/13/2002
- Deputy Administrator Nomination Withdrawn
- Space-Greenhouse Technology Re-Ups For Fight Against Bioterrorism
03/12/2002
03/11/2002
03/07/2002
- GRACE Space Twins Set To Team Up To Track Earth's Water and Gravity
- Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Presents Report To NASA
- NASA Modifies Space Operations Contract To Include Scout Software Delivery
03/06/2002
03/05/2002
03/04/2002
- Future Volcanic Eruptions May Cause Ozone Hole Over Arctic
- GRACE Media Briefing Set For March 7
- NASA Administrator Names Gregory Associate Administrator For Space Flight
- NASA Administrator Selects New Biological and Physical Research Associate Administrator
- An Early NASA Pioneer Still On the Job In Deep Space
03/01/2002
- Computer Software Upgrade Sets Stage for Space Station Expansion
- NASA's Mars Odyssey Unveils Early Science Results
02/27/2002
02/26/2002
- Astronauts Named To Key Space Station Missions
- NASA Publication Brings Space Technologies Down To Earth
- Sen.John Glenn Among New NASA Advisory Council Members
02/25/2002
02/22/2002
02/21/2002
- NASA Helps Fetal Hearts Beat Loud and Clear
- Virginia Firms Wins Langley Research Center Support Contract
02/20/2002
02/19/2002
02/15/2002
- Minority Contractors Take Home NASA Honors
- Columbia Begins Third Decade in Space With Feb. 28 Liftoff
- ISS Spacewalk from Quest Airlock to be Carried on NASA TV
- Snow Science, Not Sport, in the Rockies
02/12/2002
- Space Station Spacewalk Previewed Thursday
- NASA Administrator Names Retired Marine General To Lead Johnson Space Center
- NASA Astronaut, Dr. Shannon Lucid, Selected As Chief Scientist
02/08/2002
- U.S.Centennial Of Flight Commission Announces Official Partners
- Huntsville, Ala., Firm To Provide NASA Support Services
02/07/2002
- Shuttle Mission To Service Hubble Space Telescope Subject Of Feb. 15 Press Briefings
- NASA Awards $936 Million Modification to Boeing Space Station Contract
02/06/2002
- Former Astronaut and NAC Member Carriers Olympic Dream To Utah
- Lockheed Martin Awarded $78 Million Contract Addition
02/05/2002
- NASA Develops Blueprint To Address Aviation Issues
- NASA Develops Child Car-Seat Safety Device
- Kennedy Space Center To Perform Shuttle Modifications
- Dyncorp Awarded $148 Million Operations Support Contract at JSC
02/04/2002
02/01/2002
01/31/2002
- EUVE Spacecraft Re-Enters Earth's Atmosphere
- White House, NASA Administrator Move To Fill Key Agency Positions
01/30/2002
- NASA Managers Available To Discuss Recently Approved Space Station Crew Criteria
- NASA Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Briefing Scheduled
- Virginia Firm Wins $82 Million Contract From NASA Goddard
01/29/2002
01/25/2002
01/23/2002
01/22/2002
- NASA Balloon Makes Record-Breaking Flight
- Pictures from the Real Edge: NASA Posts U.S. Topography Data
- NASA Software to Help Speed Aircraft Departures
01/18/2002
01/17/2002
01/15/2002
01/11/2002
- Spacewalk to Help Astronauts Ham It Up In Comfort
- U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission and the Wright Experience Form Alliance
01/10/2002
01/09/2002
- Chandra Takes in Bright Lights, Big City of Milky Way
- Robotic Construction Crew Rolls Up Its Sleeves
- Death of Burt Edelson Highlights His NASA Legacy
01/08/2002
- Chandra Finds Ghosts of Eruption in Galaxy Cluster
- Hubble Suggests First Stars Opened in a Blaze of Glory
01/07/2002
- New NASA Administrator Begins Field Center Tour
- ISS Expedition Four Mission Status Briefing Thursday
01/03/2002